Moods jazz club streams concerts in Sennheiser AMBEO 3D Audio

Until the end of the year, around 20 concerts will be provided in AMBEO 3D audio

The legendary Moods jazz club in Zurich has created a new streaming platform for its concerts – moods.digital. Offering both live streaming and video on demand, Moods’ new “Digital Concert Club” is now taking the concert experience to the next level: Until the end of the year, around 20 concerts will be provided in AMBEO 3D audio. Daniel and Andreas Sennheiser, co-CEOs of Sennheiser, and Claudio Cappellari, co-director of Moods enable listeners can expect an immersive listening experience.

Moods.digital is a streaming platform to offer concerts in AMBEO 3D audio. With this immersive format, the entire magic and the very special charm of a jazz concert can unfold in the living rooms of the subscribers.

“When recording jazz music, audio quality is a make or break factor for the listener’s audio experience,” says Claudio Cappellari, co-director of Moods. “Letting our online guests experience a concert live as if they had a seat on the stage itself – this is only made possible thanks to AMBEO 3D audio technology.”

“The importance of live streaming is growing continuously: more and more people are experiencing live events at home. With binaural AMBEO 3D recordings such a concert experience is incredibly real,” explains Daniel Sennheiser. Dr. Andreas Sennheiser adds: ”With AMBEO, jazz enthusiasts all over the world can enjoy the sound of Mood’s high-calibre concerts as if they were in the club.”

Moods uses Sennheiser’s “AMBEO for Binaural” solution. A Neumann KU 100 dummy head records the concert in the same way as a listener would experience it. The dummy head is fitted with two high-quality microphones in its ‘ears’, which capture the sound image in 3D. This binaural recording carries the complete spatial and ambient information, which is then reproduced unadulterated when listening via standard stereo headphones.

The on-stage microphones for the mastered stereo mix are used as spot microphones for the individual instruments in the AMBEO mix. Their signals are mixed with the dummy head recording, and positioned in a spatially correct manner with the help of AMBEO plug-ins.